Few-Shot Learning papers, 2023–2026
Meta-learning and few-shot
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 898 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Few-Shot Learning fell from 251 papers in 2023 to 224 in 2026, so interest is cooling.
- CVPR publishes the most Few-Shot Learning work: 303 papers from 2023 to 2026, 34% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Diffusion Models: papers tagged with both rose from 4 in 2023 to 24 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Meta-Learning and Transfer, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Foundation Model Adaptation, is up 3.8x versus 0.9x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 76 | 56 | 40 | 79 | 251 |
| 2024 | 64 | 38 | 37 | 81 | 220 |
| 2025 | 68 | 36 | 35 | 64 | 203 |
| 2026 | 51 | 38 | 56 | 79 | 224 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026BAPM: Boundary-Aware Prompt Mining for Training-Free Few-Shot Medical Image Segmentation
- ICML 2026Bayes-inspired Integration of Pretrained Priors and Few-Shot Evidence for Few-Shot Classification
- ICLR 2026Adaptive Concept Discovery for Interpretable Few-Shot Text Classification
- CVPR 2026A Closer Look at Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection Fine-Tuning Matters
- NeurIPS 2025A Few Moments Please: Scalable Graphon Learning via Moment Matching
- ICML 2025FedBEns: One-Shot Federated Learning based on Bayesian Ensemble
- ICLR 2025Dist Loss: Enhancing Regression in Few-Shot Region through Distribution Distance Constraint
- CVPR 20253D Prior Is All You Need: Cross-Task Few-shot 2D Gaze Estimation
- NeurIPS 2024Few-shot Algorithms for Consistent Neural Decoding (FALCON) Benchmark
- ICML 2024Accelerating Convergence in Bayesian Few-Shot Classification
- ICLR 2024Few-shot Hybrid Domain Adaptation of Image Generator
- CVPR 2024Deformable One-shot Face Stylization via DINO Semantic Guidance
- NeurIPS 2023Alignment with human representations supports robust few-shot learning
- ICML 2023A Category-theoretical Meta-analysis of Definitions of Disentanglement
- ICLR 2023Bidirectional Language Models Are Also Few-shot Learners
- CVPR 2023A Meta-Learning Approach to Predicting Performance and Data Requirements
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Normal References: Discriminative Few-Shot Anomaly Detection
- ICML 2026BiCrossNet with Decoupled Dual Generators: A Parameter‑Efficient and Generalizable Few‑Shot Custom Gesture Recognition Framework
- ICLR 2026Dual Distillation for Few-Shot Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2026Beyond Patches Global-aware Autoregressive Model for Multimodal Few-Shot Font Generation
All Few-Shot Learning papers
35 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICML 2025Adapter Naturally Serves as Decoupler for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
- ICML 2025Adaptive Multi-prompt Contrastive Network for Few-shot Out-of-distribution Detection
- ICML 2025Alpha-SQL: Zero-Shot Text-to-SQL using Monte Carlo Tree Search
- ICML 2025Bootstrapping Self-Improvement of Language Model Programs for Zero-Shot Schema Matching
- ICML 2025CERTAIN: Context Uncertainty-aware One-Shot Adaptation for Context-based Offline Meta Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2025Does One-shot Give the Best Shot? Mitigating Model Inconsistency in One-shot Federated Learning
- ICML 2025DyPolySeg: Taylor Series-Inspired Dynamic Polynomial Fitting Network for Few-shot Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
- ICML 2025FedBEns: One-Shot Federated Learning based on Bayesian Ensemble
- ICML 2025Federated Oriented Learning: A Practical One-Shot Personalized Federated Learning Framework
- ICML 2025Feedforward Few-shot Species Range Estimation
- ICML 2025Few-Shot Learner Generalizes Across AI-Generated Image Detection
- ICML 2025FSTLLM: Spatio-Temporal LLM for Few Shot Time Series Forecasting
- ICML 2025Geometric Feature Embedding for Effective 3D Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning
- ICML 2025GuidedQuant: Large Language Model Quantization via Exploiting End Loss Guidance
- ICML 2025MAPLE: Many-Shot Adaptive Pseudo-Labeling for In-Context Learning
- ICML 2025On the Provable Separation of Scales in Maximal Update Parameterization
- ICML 2025One-Shot Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Local Model-Guided Diffusion Models
- ICML 2025PCEvolve: Private Contrastive Evolution for Synthetic Dataset Generation via Few-Shot Private Data and Generative APIs
- ICML 2025Pessimism Principle Can Be Effective: Towards a Framework for Zero-Shot Transfer Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2025Position: Don't Use the CLT in LLM Evals With Fewer Than a Few Hundred Datapoints
- ICML 2025Provable Zero-Shot Generalization in Offline Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2025Provably Improving Generalization of Few-shot models with Synthetic Data
- ICML 2025Quantifying Prediction Consistency Under Fine-tuning Multiplicity in Tabular LLMs
- ICML 2025Random Registers for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning
- ICML 2025Revisiting Continuity of Image Tokens for Cross-domain Few-shot Learning
- ICML 2025Revisiting Neural Networks for Few-Shot Learning: A Zero-Cost NAS Perspective
- ICML 2025SAND: One-Shot Feature Selection with Additive Noise Distortion
- ICML 2025Self-cross Feature based Spiking Neural Networks for Efficient Few-shot Learning
- ICML 2025Self-Disentanglement and Re-Composition for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation
- ICML 2025SLiM: One-shot Quantization and Sparsity with Low-rank Approximation for LLM Weight Compression
- ICML 2025The Missing Alignment Link of In-context Learning on Sequences
- ICML 2025The Surprising Effectiveness of Test-Time Training for Few-Shot Learning
- ICML 2025Unlocking the Power of SAM 2 for Few-Shot Segmentation
- ICML 2025Zero-shot Meta-learning for Tabular Prediction Tasks with Adversarially Pre-trained Transformer
- ICML 2025Zero-Shot Offline Imitation Learning via Optimal Transport
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FAQ
- How many Few-Shot Learning papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 898 in total: 251 in 2023, 220 in 2024, 203 in 2025, 224 in 2026.
- How many Few-Shot Learning papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 51 Few-Shot Learning papers, versus 68 the year before.
- How many Few-Shot Learning papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 38 Few-Shot Learning papers, versus 36 the year before.
- How many Few-Shot Learning papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 56 Few-Shot Learning papers, versus 35 the year before.
- How many Few-Shot Learning papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 79 Few-Shot Learning papers, versus 64 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Few-Shot Learning papers?
- CVPR, with 303 papers from 2023 to 2026.